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Friday, March 19, 2010

Awakening

Awakening - what does that mean? My online dictionary says the noun means "the act of awaking from sleep". Or "a recognition, realization, or coming into awareness of something". Both definitions are appropriate for this month's Picture This contest at Gardening Gone Wild. Awakening for me means the earth has broken its winter slumber and suddenly there are little harbingers of spring to be seen.

In my past life (pre-Louisiana) I could hardly wait to see the bluebonnets. Every trip up the freeway to work was a scouting trip for the first bluebonnet. Today, spring harbingers for me are the daffodils that line the roads, marking old farmsteads and homes. There's a great variety of them: Sweeties, Campernelles, Butter and Eggs, many more. This unknown variety pictured above shows up in my yard just after the Sweeties start blooming. This is now how I awake to spring.

24 comments:

Beautiful picture Jean, it will be a great choice for the Picture This March contest. I like your focal point and fade out. Thanks for giving me some spring thoughts on this last day of winter, looking out at the snow falling. Kathy

Thanks for dropping by my blog. I live in North Florida, so I'm south of you a little bit. It seems like every day I see something new blooming. Your daffs are so pretty. I think that I like them more and more each year.

I've been out in the garden every chance I get, making me fall WAY behind in reading my favorite bloggers. I'm all caught up with you now and am just wild about all those daffodils/jonquils/narcissi you showed. I've decided I need more bulbs!

Beautiful photo, Jean! I agree that daffodils are the signal that spring has arrived. I was excited when I got back home this week to see that my crocuses had finally bloomed, but once my daffodils open up, I'll be really excited. Good luck in the contest!